R. A. Torrey (1856-1928)
was a Congregational evangelist, teacher, author, born in Hoboken,
New Jersey. He was educated in Yale University and Divinity School.
After a period of skepticism he trusted in Jesus Christ as Saviour.
Soon after he pastored in Ohio and then in Minnesota. In 1889 Dwight
L. Moody called Torrey to Chicago to become the superintendant of the
school which became known as the Moody Bible Institute. He also served
as pastor of the Chicago Avenue Church, now the Moody Memorial Church,
for twelve years. Between 1902-1906 Torrey and Charles Alexander conducted
a very fruitful evangelistic outreach in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand,
India, China, Japan, Britain, Germany, Canada, and the USA. From 1912-1924
Torrey was dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles during which
he pastored the Church of the Open Door. His remaining years involved
holding Bible conferences, teaching at the Moody Bible Institute, and
other endevours. (Adapted from "The Wycliffe Biographical Dictionary
of the Church, Elgin S. Moyer, Moody Press, 1982)

Refuges of Lies

"The hail
shall sweep away the refuge of lies"- Isaiah 28:17

We have seen in a former address
that every man needs a refuge from four things-from the accusations of his
own conscience, from the power of sin within, from the power of Satan, and
from the wrath to come. Almost every man has a refuge, that is, he has something
in which he has put his trust to comfort him. The difficulty with most men
is not so much that they have not a refuge, as that they have a false refuge,
a refuge that will fail them in the hour of crisis and need; what our text
characterizes as a "refuge of lies." It was
just so in Isaiah's time; the men of Israel knew there was a coming day of
judgment, and that they needed a hiding place from that coming judgment of
God, and they made lies their refuge, and Isaiah -God's messenger- proclaimed, "the
hail shall sweep away your false refuge, the refuge of lies," and I come
to you with the same message, you men and women that have a refuge, but a false
one. "The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies."

I. HOW TO DETECT A REFUGE OF LIES

Is there any way in which we can tell a true refuge from a false one, a refuge
that will stand the test of the coming day of God from a refuge that the hail
shall sweep away? There are four tests that will commend themselves to the
reason and common-sense of every intelligent and candid man here to-night,
whereby he tell a true refuge from a false one, a refuge that will save from
a refuge that will ruin; a refuge of truth from a refuge of lies. The first
test is this:-

1. A true Refuge is one
that meets the highest Demands of your own Conscience. -- If that in which you are trusting
does not meet the highest demands of your own conscience, it certainly is
not a hiding place from accusations of conscience. Furthermore, it is not
a hiding-place from the wrath of God, for if our own hearts condemn us, God
is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things.

2. The second test is this:
Every true refuge is one, trust in which is making you a better man or
woman today. -- If you are trusting in something which is in something
which is not making you a better man or woman to-day, it is not a hiding-place
from the power of sin within, it is not a hiding-place from the power of
Satan, it is not a hiding-place from the wrath to come; for a refuge that
does not save you from the power of sin here on earth, very certainly will
never save you from the consequences of sin hereafter.

3. In the third place: A
true Refuge is one that will stand the test of the Dying Hour. -- If you are trusting
in something that simply brings you comfort when you are well and strong,
but will fail you in that great hour that we have all got to face, when we
lie face to face with death and eternity, it is absolutely worthless.

4. In the fourth place:
A true Refuge is one that will stand the Test of the Judgment Day .-- If you an trusting
in something that will not stand the test of that great Judgment Day, when
we have to pass up before the judgment bar of God to give an account of the
deeds done in the body, it is absolutely worth-less. There are men here in
London indicted for murders and about to be tried. Now suppose you went down
to see one of these men, and you found him in a very peaceful frame of mind,
without a fear, and you said to him, "Well, you
seem very cheerful for a man charged with murder." "Oh, yes," he
said, "I am; I have no anxiety whatever about that trial." And you
say, "What, no anxiety about it?" "No, nods whatever." he
replies. "Why not?" you say. "Because," says he, "I
have an answer to make." "Well, is your answer one that will satisfy
the judge and jury?" you ask. "No," he replies, "I do not
think it will satisfy the judge and jury, but it satisfies me." "Why," you
would say, "what good is it if your answer satisfies you, if it will not
satisfy the judge and jury before whom the case is to be tried." The question
is not whether your hope satisfies you; will it satisfy God? I might add a
fifth test: will it stand the test of the Word of God?

Here then are the four tests: first, Is it meeting the highest demands of
your own conscience? second, Is it making you a better man or woman? third,
Will it stand the test of the dying hour? fourth, Will it stand the test of
the judgment day?

II. REFUGES OF LIES EXAMINED AND
EXPOSED

Now we are going to apply these four tests to the things in which men are
trusting.

First: The first is their
own morality. How many men in London there are, who, if
you go up and speak with them and ask them to come to Christ, say, "No,
I will not come; I do not need Him." You ask, "My not?" And
they reply, "Because I am a good man; my life and character are such that
I do not feel the need of a Saviour and I am trusting in my life and character
to gain acceptance before God." Let us apply the tests. You are trusting
in your own goodness. Does your own goodness meet the highest demands of your
own conscience? is there a man here to-night that will say, "My life and
character are such that they meet the highest demands of my own conscience"?
Is there a man out of Christ here to-night who will say that? I have never
met but two men who have said it. You will say, "They must have been remarkably
good men." No, they had remarkably poor consciences. The first one was
a man I once met while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. I approached him on the
subject of becoming a Christian. He said, "I do not need any Saviour." I
said, "Do you mean to me your life has been such, and your character from
childhood up to this moment, as to satisfy the highest demands of your own
conscience?" He said, "Yes, they have." But so far from being
an exceptionally good man, he was the most unpopular man on the boat before
we reached New York City.

Second: Is trust in your
goodness making you a better man? As you go on from
month to month and from year to year, do you find that you are growing more
kind, more gentle, more self-sacrificing, more thoughtful of others, more considerate,
more tender, more humble, more prayerful? Now I have known a great many men
who trusted in their own goodness but I have yet to meet the first one who,
while trusting to his own goodness, grew better. As far as my experience goes,
these men grow hard, grow censorious, grow harsh, grow selfish, grow more and
more inconsiderate of others, grow more proud, and more bitter.

Third: Will it stand the
test of the dying hour? Oh, how many a man has gone through life boasting of his
morality, and trusting in his morality to save him in the life to come; but
when that dread hour comes, when he lies upon his dying bed face to face
with God and eternity, all his trust in his morality leaves him, in the illumination
that comes to the soul as eternity draws nigh. I remember a man in one of
my pastorates who was very, very self-confident. He had no use for the church,
no use for the Bible, no use for Jesus Christ He was very well satisfied
that he was about the most exemplary man there was in the community, and
he needed no Saviour. But the time came when there was a cancer eating into
that man's brain. It was eating through the skin, eating through the flesh,
it was eating into the skull, and eating so far into the skull that there
was only a thin film left, and you could see the throbbing of the brain underneath.
And when that man saw that he had but a few days, and possibly but a few
hours, to live, his trust in his morality fled, and he said, "I wish you would go and call Mr. Torrey to come here and see
me." I came to the bedside, and as he lay there in agony he said to me, "Tell
me what to do to be saved?" I sat down by that bed, and tried to show
him from the Word of God what he must do to be saved. And as night came on
I said to his family, "Do not sit up through the long hours of the night;
I will up stay up with him, and perform all that is necessary." And all
sat through the hours of the night I sat beside that dying man's bed. Sometimes
I had to go out of the room to get something for him, and whenever I came back
there was always one groan from the bed over in the corner. It was this: "Oh,
I wish I was a Christian! I wish I was a Christian! I wish I was a Christian!" And
so he died. His morality did not stand the test of the dying hour.

Fourth: Will it stand the
test of the Judgment Day, when you stand face to face with an infinitely
holy God who knows you through and through? Will you look up into His face and say, "O
God, I stand here on my merits, on my character and life! Thou knowest my
life; Thou knowest me through and through; Thou knowest my every secret thought
and act; Thou knowest my life is pure, and I stand here before an infinitely
holy God, and am proud of my morality."

Will it stand the test of God! God's
word? Turn to Romans iii. 20: "Therefore
by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight." Turn
to Galatians iii. 10: "For as many as are of the works of the law are
under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not
in all things are written in the Book of the Law to do them.

2. There is a second refuge
of lies, and that is, trust is other people's badness. Some men trust in their own
goodness; other men trust in other folk's badness. You go to them and talk
about Christ, and they say, "Well, I
am just as good as other folks. I am just as good as a lot of your professing
Christians." Oh, I know so many hypocrites in the church. Instead of making
their boast of, and putting their trust in, their own goodness, they make a
boast of, and put their trust in, other people's badness. Let us apply the
tests. Does that mean the highest demands of your conscience? When your conscience
comes to you with its lofty demands, does it satisfy your conscience to say, "Well,
I am just as good as a great many professing Christians"? If it does,
you have a conscience of a very low order. Is trust in other people's badness
making you a better man? Now, I have known a good many people, just as you
have known them, who were all the time talking about the badness of other people.
I have yet to meet the first one that grew better by the process. Show me the
man or woman that is all the time dwelling upon the badness of other people,
and I will show you a man or woman that is bad them-selves, every time. Show
me the man that is always talking about another man's adultery, and you show
me a man that is an adulterer himself. Show me the woman that is always having
a suspicion about other women, and I will show you a woman you cannot trust.
Show me a man that say; every other man is dishonest, and I will show you a
man who is a knave himself. I once had a Bible-class, and in that class there
was a woman who was in business, one of those women who was always talking
about the faults of others; and one day this woman propounded this question
to me; she said: "Mr. Torrey, is it not true that every person in business
is dishonest?" I looked at her and said, "When any person in business
comes to me and asks if every one in business is not dishonest, they convict
at least one person." She
was angry, but I was only telling her the truth. Show me the man or woman who
is always dwelling upon the faults of Christians, or the faults of anybody
else, and I will show you a man or woman that is rotten to the core"-
I made that remark in my church when I was pastor in an American city, and
at the close of the meeting a lady came and said to me, "I do not like
what you said; you said, "If you show me any man or woman that is always
talking about the faults of others, you would show me some one that was bad." "Yes," I
said, "and I mean it." "Well, there is Miss So-and-so. Now,
you must admit that she is always talking about the faults of others." I
had to admit that this was a well known fact. "You do not mean to say
that she is bad herself?" I did not answer, for I did not care to be personal;
but if I had told her all the truth, I would have told her that that very week
I had forbidden that very woman to sing in the choir any more because of certain
revelations of her character which had been made to me, and to which she had
confessed.

Will it stand the test of the dying hour? When you come to lie on your dying
bed, will it give all the comfort you need to be thinking about the faults
of others?

This very woman who accused every
person in of being dishonest, who was always dwelling the faults of others-the
time came for her to die; and as she lay dying, the doctor came in and said: "Mrs. So-and-so, it is my duty to
tell you that you must die.:" The woman shrieked, "I cannot die;
I won't die; I am not ready to die"; but she did die.

Will it stand the test of the Judgment
Day? When you go into the presence of God to answer to Him, will you look
up into His face with the same confidence as you look up into mine, and say, "O God, I do not pretend to have been
very good, but I was just as good as a great many in the churches"? Will
you do it, man? Will you do it, woman? Ah, the blessed Book tells you, in Romans
xiv. 12: "So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to
God." Not an account of somebody else. In the judgment day you will forget
everybody but yourself. In that judgment day all other sin will vanish but
your sin.

3. The third refuge of lies
is Universalism. There are a great many men in every city, who, if you approach them on the
subject of becoming Christians and giving up sin, say, "Oh, no, I will
not do that; I believe in a God of Love; I believe God is too good to damn
any-body. A man does not need to forsake sin in order to take Christ. God
is good, and there is not any hell. Do you mean to tell me God would permit
a hell; that a good God would damn any one? No, I do not need to forsake
sin. I am trusting in the goodness of God, and I believe all men will at
some time or other be saved" Now, let
us just try this. Does that meet the highest demands of conscience? When your
conscience comes to you and points out your sin and demands your renunciation,
does it satisfy your conscience to say, "Yes, I am doing wrong, but God
is so good I can just as well go on sinning, I can just as well go on trampling
God's laws underfoot. He is so good He will not punish me. He gave His Son
to die for me; I can go on sinning as I please"? Does that satisfy your
conscience? Well, then, you have a mighty mean conscience. What would you think
of a boy and girl, brother and sister, whose mother lies sick in the house.
The boy was sick a little time before, and the mother had watched over him
so faithfully and tenderly that she had caught his sickness; she had brought
him back to health, but she was lying very sick and almost at the point of
death. She had told the children that they could go out into the garden, and
said, "There are some flowers out there about which I am very careful.
I do not want you to pick them." So Johnny and Mary go out, and Johnny
goes to work to do just what he was asked not to do. His sister expostulates,
and says, "Johnny, did you not hear mother tell us not to pick those flowers,
that they were very precious and that she did not want them picked?" "Oh,
yes," says Johnny. "Then why pick them?" asks the sister. "Because," says
Johnny, "she loves me so, Mary. Don't you know how she loves me, how when
I was sick mother gave up sleep and everything, and watched over me through
the nights? Don't you know that she is sick there now because she loves me
so? And so I am now going to do the very thing she told me not to do." What
would you think of a boy like that, and what do you think of the man or woman
that makes their boast of the love of God, and because God loves them, with
such a wonderful love, make His love an excuse for sin, make God's love an
excuse for rebellion against him, make God's love a reason for a worldly life?
I should think you men and women would despise yourselves. Oh, the baseness
of it; oh, the contemptible ingratitude of it; oh, the blackheartedness of
it, making God's wondrous love, that gave Jesus to die on the Cross of Calvary,
an excuse for sinning against Him!

Is your universalism making you
a better man or woman? Oh, how many men grow careless, grow worldly, grow
sinful, grow indifferent, because somebody has inoculated them with the pernicious
error of eternal hope. How many men there are alive now, once earnest in
the service of God, who are indifferent about the condition of the lost,
the worldly, and the careless, because they have read some books undermining,
or trying to undermine, the doctrines of Jesus and the Apostles. With what
honeyed words the Professing Church to-day it promulgating the doctrine of
eternal hope, which is an infernal lie. Will it stand the test of the dying
hour? Oftentimes it does not. Dr. Ichabod Spencer, one of the most able and
faithful pastors America ever had, tells how, when pastor of a Presbyterian
church in Brooklyn,, he was called to see a Young man who was dying- His
wife and mother were members of the church, but this young man was not. The
doctor went to see him, and tried to lead him to Christ; but he turned and
said, "It is no use; I have had many chances, but I have put them
all away and I am dying, and shall soon have to go; it is no use talking to
me now." And he was in great agony and distress of soul. Then the father
came in and heard him talking said groaning, and he said, "My boy, there
is no reason for you to take on so. There is no reason for you to feel so bad.
You have not been a bad man; you have nothing to fear." The dying young
man turned round and said to his father, "You are to blame for me being
here. It I had listened to mother when she tried to lead me to a good life,
instead of listening to you, I should not be in this strait. Mother tried to
get me to go to Sunday school and to church, but you said God was so good it
did not matter; and when mother tried to take me to church you took me fishing
and hunting and pleasuring; you told me there was not a hell, and I believed
you; you have deceived me up to this moment, father, but you can't deceive
me any longer. I am dying and I am going to hell, and my blood is on your soul." Then
he turned his face to the wall and died. Men, you turn people into sin by preaching
a doctrine that contradicts the teaching of the Son of God. It means that you
are deceiving the men you are rocking to sleep in sin, and they will live to
curse you some day. And you men who are in health and strength are building
upon a false hope. Death will tear away the veil that blinds your eyes to-night.

Will it stand the test of the judgment
day? When you go up into the presence of God will you look up, and when He
asks about your sin, will you answer, "Yes,
Father, I did sin; I did trample Thy laws under foot; I did neglect prayer,
neglect the Bible, neglect the house of God, neglect obedience to Thee; I was
worldly and careless, but I have a good answer. Father, my answer is this:
I knew Thou wert a God of love, and gave thy Son to die for me on the Cross
of Calvary, and as I knew Thou wert so loving, I just went on trampling Thy
laws under foot"? Will you do that? It won't stand the test.

4. A fourth refuge is infidelity.
How many men there are, who, when asked to become Christians, turn and say, "I do not believe that the Bible is
the Word of God. That is an old superstition that is worn out. I do not believe
that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God. In fact, I am not quite sure that
there is a God. I am not a Christian, and you can call me what you like. Call
me an infidel, an agnostic, what you please; but I do not need any Christ,
and do not believe in Him." He tries to comfort himself with infidelity.
Hundreds of thousands are doing this in London tonight. Apply the tests. Does
that meet the highest demands of your own conscience? When conscience asserts
itself, and comes to you with its majestic demands, does it satisfy your conscience,
to say, "I do not believe in the Bible or in Jesus Christ; I do not believe
in God"? Is your infidelity making you a better man? I have yet to find
the first man or woman made better by infidelity. I have known men to be made
adulterers by infidelity; I have known men and women to be made suicides by
infidelity; I have known men to be robbed of business integrity by infidelity;
I have known men who were made deceivers by infidelity and ran away from their
wives and went with other women. I could stand here by the hour and tell you
of the characters I have known to be shipwrecked by infidelity. I have yet
to find the first man that was made upright or moral or clean by infidelity.
I stood up one night in my church in Chicago. The church was full, and a great
many infidels were there. I had invited them to be there, as I was talking
about "Infidelity: Its Causes, Consequences and Cure." I stopped
in my sermon and said, "I want every man in this audience to-night that
can honestly testify before God and this audience that be bas been saved from
drunkenness by the Gospel of Jesus Christ to stand up"; and two or three
hundred men stood up as having been saved from drunkenness by the Gospel of
Christ. I said, "That will do. Now we am going to be fair and give the
other side a chance, and I want to ask any infidel in this audience to-night
that has been saved from drunkenness by infidelity in any form to stand up." I
looked round; at first I thought there wasn't any one standing up. At last,
away under the gallery, I saw one, a very ragged looking sort of a Senegambian,
and he was drunk at the time; that is an actual fact. Thank God, he went down
into the inquiry-room afterwards, and thought it over. Men and women, infidelity
undermines character, infidelity robs men and women of purity, infidelity makes
your clerks and cashiers unsafe. You know it.

Will your infidelity stand the test
of the dying hour? A great deal of infidelity does not. A friend of mine
who took part in the American Civil War, and fought for the North, told me
a story about a man in his regiment who had been boasting in camp of his
unbelief. 0n the second day of the battle of Pittsburg Landing this man said
to his comrades of his company, while waiting for the word of command to
go forward, "I fear I am going to be shot this day; I have
an awful feeling." "Oh, that's nonsense," they said, "it's
just a premonition, a superstition, and there's nothing in it." Soon the
command came, "Forward!" and that company marched up the hill, and
just as it went over the crest there was a volley from the enemy's guns. The
first one sent a bullet through his chest near his heart, and he fell back,
and as they carried him to the rear, he cried, "O God, give me time to
repent!" It took only one bullet to take the infidelity out of him. It
would take less than that to take the infidelity out of most of you here to-night.
Will it stand the test of the judgment day? Will you go up into God's presence,
and when asked to answer for your sin, will you say: "Well oh God, Thou
knowest I did not quite believe You existed; I did not believe the Bible was
Thy Word, and that Jesus Christ was Thy Son. I was an infidel; that is my answer"?
Will you do this? I will tell you how to try it. Go home to-night, and go down
on your knees, and look up into God's face, and tell Him you are an infidel,
and that you do not believe in Him, or in His Son, or in the Bible, and that
you are willing to stand the judgment test. I went down in a meeting like this
one night to the last row of seats at the back of the hall, and I said to a
man there, "Are you a Christian?" "I should think not," he
said; "I am an infidel." I said, "Do you mean to tell me you
do not believe Jesus Christ is divine?" He said, "No, I do not." I
said, "Just kneel down here and tell God that." He turned pale. And
I say to you to-night who profess to be infidels, "Go and tell that to
God alone, not when you are trying to brave it out in the presence of others,
but alone; meet God alone. Get down before Him, and tell Him what you tell
me."

5. There is one more refuge
of lies-religion. Religion is a refuge of lies. Religion never saved anybody. You say, "What do you mean?" I mean
just what I say-religion never saved anybody. Trust in religion is one thing;
trust in the personal Christ is another thing. There is many a man who trusts
in his religion and yet he is not saved. You go to men, and they say, "Yes,
I am religious; I go to church every Sunday; I read my prayer-book, and say
prayers regularly every day; I read my Bible; I have been baptized; I have
been confirmed or united to the Church; I have taken the Sacrament regularly,
and that is what I am trusting in." Is it?, Then you are lost. Let us
apply the tests. Does your religion satisfy the highest demands of your conscience?
Does it satisfy your conscience, when it points out your sin, to say, "I
go to church; I read the Bible; I have been baptized and confirmed"? Does
it really give your conscience peace? Is your religion making you a better
man or woman? There is a great deal that is called religion that does not make
men and women better. There is many a man who is very religious, and goes to
mass or to church every Sunday in the year; he goes to Confession very frequently,
says his prayers regularly, reads his Bible, and partakes of the Communion;
he has been baptized, he has been confirmed, and yet he is just as dishonest
as any other man in the community. There is many a man who is very religious,
and yet oppresses his employees in the matter of wages, or robs his servants
in his home. Many a most religious man is a perfect knave. Such religion will
not save him, but damn him with a deeper damnation.

Thirdly, will it stand the test of the dying hour? There is a great a great
deal of religion that does not. How many people have been very religious, and
yet when they come to die they tremble with fear.

Will it stand the test of the judgment
day? Jesus Christ says it will not. In Matthew vii. 22, we read: "Many shall say unto Me in that day, Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name cast out devils?
and in Thy name done many wonderful works?" -that is, they have been very
religious; and Jesus says, "I will say unto them, I never knew you; depart
from Me, ye that work iniquity." Friends, if you have nothing to trust
in but religion you are lost; it is a refuge of lies.

Well, then, is there any refuge?
There is. The verse before my text gives it, Isaiah xxviii. 16: "Therefore
thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone,
a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation." That foundation
stone is Jesus Christ. "Other foundation
can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Christ Jesus." As I said
before, it is one thing to trust in religion, and it is an entirely different
thing to trust in Christ. Oh. friends, if your trust is in Christ it will stand
the test, it will meet the highest demands of your conscience. When my conscience
accuses me of sin, I say --

Jesus paid my debt,
All the debt I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

"He who had no sin was made sin for me, that I might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. He Himself bore my sin in His own body on the Cross"; and
that satisfies the conscience. The blood of Jesus Christ gives the guilty conscience
peace. Trust in Jesus Christ makes me a better man. It has completely transformed
my life, my outward life and my inward life. It will stand the test of the
dying hour. Oh, how often I have gone to the room of the dying man who was
trusting in Jesus, and he has looked up into my face with radiant confidence,
without a tremor of fear, trusting in Jesus.

I remember one day I was told that
one of the former members of my Bible class was dying, and I went to his
house. I walked in and he sat there propped up in bed. He was dying very
fast. I said, "Mr. Pomeroy, they tell me you
probably cannot live through the night." "No' he said; "I suppose
this day is my last." I said, "Are you afraid?" He said, with
a smile of perfect peace, "Not at all." I said, "Mr. Pomeroy,
Are you ready to go?" He said, "I shall be glad to depart, and be
with Jesus Christ." When Mr. Moody was facing the other world there was
no fear. At six o'clock in the morning his son was by his bedside and heard
him whisper, "Earth is receding; Heaven is opening; God is calling." Then
later, "Is this death? This is not bad, this is bliss, this is glorious." Still
later, some one began to cry to God to raise him from his bed of sickness,
and he said, "No, do not ask that. This is my coronation day; I have long
been looking forward to it. Don't call me back; God is calling me." Oh,
friends, a living faith in Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Saviour, will
stand the test of the dying hour. It will stand the test of the judgment day.
If it is the will of God, I am ready to go and meet Him at the judgment bar
to-night, and, when He asks me to answer, I have but one answer, the all-sufficient
answer, "Jesus." That will satisfy God.

Throw away your refuges of lies
to-night. The hail will soon come and sweep them away; "the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies." Throw
them away to-night. Take the only sure and true refuge, Jesus Christ.